Samoa: Fleeting Substantiality - The Samoan Giant In US Popular Discourse

Samoa: Fleeting Substantiality - The Samoan Giant In US Popular Discourse April K. Henderson, 2011   In this article I draw examples from the broader terrain of academic and popular literature, news media, television, and film to explore questions regarding representations of Samoans, and especially Samoan men, in the United States. The mediated accessibility of Samoans, via televised sports and entertainment, combines with their relative geographic and demographic inaccessibility to...

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